I have loved Sound of Music for very long now, and have fond memories of kneeling outside class, thrown out for attempting a yodel in the middle of History period. (You can’t not want to yodel after you learn the “Lonely Goatherd” in Singing period just before that). The night I saw the film, I […]
Three months ago I sat in the open air section of Candies, when the first drop fell on my arm I didn’t even bother looking up- a leaky AC in the building above, an over enthusiastically pronounced word from someone’s lips- it could be anything. Casually wiping it off my arm I continued the deeply engrossing […]
Another morning when I should have been trying to sort out the mess that is my cupboard, has been spent watching bits of “I am Legend.” (Justification: I abandoned the project only after I was done with the second shelf, so I did get some work done.) Loosely based on Richard Matheson’s novel “I am Legend” […]
Having watched AMC’s The Walking Dead combined with a healthy appetite for my undead friends led me to sign up with Leaping Windows, India’s first online graphic novel library (only operational in Mumbai for now) within minutes of finding out about it. I had to get my grimy paws on the graphic novel that served as the inspiration for […]
I hated going up to the bathroom in boarding school. In the night, during study hour, when I was done with whatever Tinkle or Enid Blyton that was hidden in my text book, I would wander up there. There was an open window at the end of a long corridor, lined on the sides with […]
I’m not sure when my obsession with Zombies began. To clarify, I’m not a 14-year-old Caucasian male, and the only exposure I have had to Left 4 Dead is… well none, but there’s enough to keep my obsession well fed in so many other places. Now why Zombies, you ask? Is it the blood and […]
I read about Meter Jam in the newspaper a couple of days ago, and man! I was all in. Living in Mahim, a suburb away from Bandra is great, almost all my work-related/fun-related things happen a 15 minute ride away from home, so I can’t say I have even half the problems that Mumbaikars, for […]
I’ve been listening to Passion Pit’s Better Things on loop for the past 2 weeks. It’s one of the songs that Nick put on my ipod two years ago. Fantastic lyrics, great music, and no one hates being told that “Better things are coming…” “Change the bloody bhain-bhain, you’ve been listening to the same shit […]
When I mentioned to someone that I was going to watch Kites I got a guffaw as a response. “Didn’t you hear? It sucks.” And reviewers haven’t been good to it either. ‘Kites’ cuts its own strings by a weak story, zero chemistry, no melody, no romance, and tries to fly with the winds of […]
From Priscilla Hart’s scrapbook July 16th, 1989 Learned something interesting about the Hindu God Ram, the one all the fuss is about these days.Seems that when he brought his wife Sita back from Lanka and became King, the gossips in the kingdom were whispering that after so many months in Raavna’s captivity, she couldn’t possibly […]